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Runes Novels, Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fantasy
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- Paperback Apr 10, 2018 | 9781473217102 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jul 27, 2017 | 9781409165781 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jul 27, 2017 | 9781473217119 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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- Paperback Apr 10, 2018 | 9781473217102 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jul 27, 2017 | 9781409165781 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jul 27, 2017 | 9781473217119 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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- Paperback Apr 10, 2018 | 9781473217102 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jul 27, 2017 | 9781409165781 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jul 27, 2017 | 9781473217119 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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A chilling prophecy from the Oracle. A conflict between two girls. And with just twelve days to stave off the Apocalypse, carnage is about to be unleashed . . .
The next gripping tale of magic, adventure and Norse mythology from the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of CHOCOLAT and THE GOSPEL OF LOKI.
The squabbling Norse gods and goddesses of Runemarks are back! And there's a feisty new heroine on the scene: Maggie, a girl the same age as Maddy but brought up a world apart - literally, in World's End, the focus of the Order in which Maddy was raised. Now the Order is destroyed, Chaos is filling the vacuum left behind... and is breaching the everyday world.
Six hundred miles apart, two girls each bear on their skin a runemark: a symbol of the Old Days when the known Worlds were ruled by the gods from their sky citadel, Asgard.
Now Asgard lies in ruins, and the power of the gods has long since been destroyed.
Or so everyone thinks.
But nothing is lost for ever, and the gods haven't given up yet (nor stopped squabbling!) and they want the power of the runes borne by Maddy and Maggie - these new runes, which carry huge potential, their runelight shining out as a portent to the future.
Soon both girls are swept into a maelstrom of cataclysmic events that are to draw them closer and closer to each other, and nearer and nearer to a horrific struggle where each must prove where their loyalty lies . . .
Filled with inventive and humorous detail, trickery and treachery, carnage and lunacy, Runelight is the second title - following Runemarks - in a series of gloriously imaginative and dramatic tales about the Norse gods.
Praise for Runelight
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Especially enjoyable are Harris' aphorisms, her satire of joyless piety and the comically irreverant vernacular spoken by a dissolute goblin and the trickster god Loki - SUNDAY TIMES
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The author is one of my favourites . . . The author's wonderful imagination is showcased to great effect - Sun
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Harris creates a glorious and complex world replete with rune-based magical spells, bickering gods, exciting adventures and difficult moral issues - Publishers Weekly
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Goblins, glams, ancient gods and subterranean adventure - Sunday Telegraph
Joanne Harris
JOANNE HARRIS is an Anglo-French author, whose books include twenty novels, three cookbooks, and many short stories. Her work is extremely diverse, covering aspects of magic realism, suspense, historical fiction, mythology, and fantasy. In 2000, her 1999 novel Chocolat was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an honorary fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and in 2022 was awarded an OBE by the Queen.
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